Stuttering Credit Crawl

[Daniel Elder]

The ProRez version is a QT file, so you shouldn’t have problems playing it, since it’s a .mov.

The Data Rate for the ProRez is about between 175.80 mbits/s and 211 mbits/s and it plays pretty good, there are slight hiccups, like I was saying before about every 10 to 15 frames.

Daniel Elder
producer
http://www.luminair.com

[Kevin Camp]

i looked at your sorenson piece, the play back seemed a bit strobe-like to me… i think if you were to lengthen the duration of the move and/or shorten the length of the list (scaling it down, reducing the text size and/or reduce the leading/line spacing) you should get smoother results.

you know, i mentioned 10% yesterday… i really meant 1% of the height of the comp (sorry if i confused anybody– like, hey if i work in 1080 my credit list can move at a rate of 108 pixels/frame… ooops). your list looks like it moves at right about 10 pixels per frame, so i think if you go that down to 5-6 pixels per fame it will seem much smoother.

so maybe the rule should be less than 1%…

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Daniel Elder]

OK, I will give that a try and see what happens. What is the smallest font size I can be safe with within the HD spectrum, as well we will be downconverting it to a letterboxed SD master?

Daniel Elder
producer
http://www.luminair.com

[Daniel Elder]

I think the biggest issue is the text size, and the speed, so I will be handling that side of it first. I sent out a 1280 x 720 version and had similar results which leads me to believe that the size of my roll to it’s length needs to be addressed. I will give this a shot and see what happens, thanks everyone for your help

Daniel Elder
producer
http://www.luminair.com

[Rudy Manning]

@Dan
What come of this? Did you figure it out? From what I can understand from the thread you just made the credits longer or slower? I’m having same issue right now with my credit scrawl right now but I can’t slow it down anymore than it is already.

– white copy on black
– working in AE
– 1080i 23.98fps
– speed and length of end credits is locked
– I’ve tried everything from using an expression to calculate the pixels per second, reducing contrast, changed length (which only helps if it’s about 25% slower), making background lighter, blurring type slightly…all which either helped a tiny bit or nothing at all.

Any help would be great?